That Hideous Strength / C. S. Lewis

		JPS writes: Yes This is a very difficult book, and I'd like to echo the fact that the same argument is put much more clearly in ''the Abolition of Man''. I do find the whole Arthur and Merlin thing a rather disappointing way to end it, as it seems unnecessarily mythical, but it is an indication of how far this book, like the other two, is indeed driven more by ideas and theology than by character and plot.
		[340] Posted on Thursday, 03 July 2008 at 17:30 GMT [Reply to this] [Permalink]

		Allison writes in reply to JPS: Yes The book itself is Myth, by Lewis's standards.If you've read things such as Myth Became Fact and On Science Fiction, etc. you will realize that his goal is to write myth. Admittedly, the Authurian legend caught me by surprise, but it's inextricable from the story- it's thoroughly Lewis.
		[417] Posted on Thursday, 17 September 2009 at 20:54 GMT [Reply to this] [Permalink]